Do you still cook?

No. I barely even eat anymore, although when I do I enjoy it immensely. I'm just not hungry at home, alone. I think about cooking a lot, I want to, but seem to forget about it as the day wears on.

I got out of the habit of eating when I was caring for Buffy. I felt guilty eating when all she could do was stare sadly at me, when formerly she would be jumping on the table bothering me. Before she was sick, I would put her in another room when I ate. Max never bothered me when eating, only Buffy would stick her face in my plate.
 

I enjoy cooking although I live alone I cook most days, casseroles, stews, pies, chicken, fish, omelettes, all with either rice, salad or vegetables, I make soup, sometimes a cooked breakfast

The only ‘ready meals’ I have are Indian or Chinese dishes I would not cook myself
 
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We cook or prepare a majority of our meals from scratch. Between my wife & myself, we can make meals we enjoy.

Also, there's the "cost of living" aspect. That's a big topic on this forum. Our situation allows us to store a lot of basic food staples, which we either raise here on our property or buy (especially when the price is good). And that saves money, overall.

I realize not everyone has the storage capacity that a country home offers, but I'd think the principle of having basic food staples on-hand — rather than supermarket purchases of frozen or pre-packaged meals — should apply in the city or suburb.

PS: I should have mentioned that we'll often cook enough for more than one meal, so we'll keep some in the fridge (or, if there's really a lot, some goes into the freezer till we're feeling lazy).
 
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Cook? I suppose one could call it that. I always have a few weeks supply of my thick, multi-bean soup frozen and ready to use. Same with loaves (I bake 4 at a time) of whole grain (oat, barley, quinoa, wheat or variations of that) bread frozen and ready to use. I eat raw broccoli, red cabbage, red onions, carrots, sweet potato and leafy greens every day. About a cup or more of triple berry (blueberry, raspberry and blackberry blend) every day. An avocado and an apple every day. Various kinds of nuts every day.
A hard boiled egg (pasture raised & organic) every day. Three or four mornings every week I have a thick slurry of oat bran, hemp seed powder and milled flax seed mixed up to the consistency of a milk shake to accompany my avocado and hard boiled egg breakfast. On other mornings I have that homemade bread dipped in olive oil to accompany the fruit and egg. I reinforce my bean/grain paired proteins with yogurt or sardines a couple times a week.

My doctor says he approves of this diet. I do a daily exercise routine too. I intend for my body to go into old age in a healthy way. I'm still working on the mental health thing.
 
For years I subscribed to Home Chef, a meal delivery service.
All ingredients had to be prepared and cooked on stovetop and/or oven.
I canceled because in the hottest part of the year here in the deep south, meal ingredients arrived thawed and wilted.
But I thoroughly enjoyed cooking, while often tasting things I might not otherwise have found locally.

It's hard to plan varied meals for just myself and buy ingredients in quantities that won't spoil before eaten.
So that was the thing about Home Chef. No meal planning, running all over town, and nothing requiring storage and monitoring best by date.
Home Chef was expensive but worth it (to me) for one ... or two people. Not a good choice for a family at all.

Now days, I nuke Birdseye frozen skillet meals. I doctor 'em up with oils and spices I learned from Home Chef.
 
We cook, bake from scratch. Rather than eating the same thing using the web to vary meals has been useful. Just the other day we tried a recipe for spice cake it worked out like it was supposed to. Now with that recipe we will use it to be the basis for a fruit cake.
 
I guess I cook, but only in the microwave unless it is a special holiday food. I microwave a scrambled egg each morning, so that is my major "cooking". For lunch I microwave a frozen dinner & a frozen vegetable, but I don't really count that as cooking.

Last week for Thanksgiving I baked cranberry bread. But even though I moved in last December, I had to get out the manual to figure out how to use the stove/oven, and then discovered that the circuit breaker for the range was in the 'off' position, and apparently it has been that way the whole time I lived here, because turns out the stove shows the time on its display.
 
Naturally said:
For years I subscribed to Home Chef, a meal delivery service.
All ingredients had to be prepared and cooked on stovetop and/or oven.
I canceled because in the hottest part of the year here in the deep south, meal ingredients arrived thawed and wilted.
But I thoroughly enjoyed cooking, while often tasting things I might not otherwise have found locally.

It's hard to plan varied meals for just myself and buy ingredients in quantities that won't spoil before eaten.
So that was the thing about Home Chef. No meal planning, running all over town, and nothing requiring storage and monitoring best by date.
Home Chef was expensive but worth it (to me) for one ... or two people. Not a good choice for a family at all.

Now days, I nuke Birdseye frozen skillet meals. I doctor 'em up with oils and spices I learned from Home Chef.
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I live on my own...I cook from scratch at least 5 times a week... It's difficult if you're buying ready made meals to buy for just one.. but if you cook from scratch it;s much easier, and you can cook in bulk and freeze which is what I do...
 
CallMeKate said:
Cooking is one of my favorite things to do and I'm constantly looking for new recipes. I have tons of cookbooks from decades of collecting them, but it's become so easy to find recipes online now that they're basically going to waste. 🤷‍♀️
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I know what you mean. I have so many cookbooks and I thought they'd sell well at my garage sale. I don't remember selling even one. I was telling a friend and she said to the effect - You can get recipes online now, so you don't have a lot of books taking up space in which you only use a recipe or two.
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